MKS Toolkit for Professional Developers
Migration of non-graphical, character based, UNIX C, C++, and Fortran applications and utilities to Windows
Overview
MKS Toolkit for Professional Developers is an ideal solution for cross-platform development, deployment, and migration of UNIX/Linux commands, utilities, and scripts to Windows. Software, script, and Web developers can choose from UNIX-style command-line or graphical VisualStudio build environments. From a single desktop, using over 1500 UNIX APIs and over 300 utilities, including make, cc, and vi, you can extend the power of the MKS Toolkit and migrate custom utilities, non-graphical C, C++, or FORTRAN applications as well as Perl, Korn shell, C shell, sed / awk, and CGI scripts. To increase productivity, developers and administrators can use powerful scripting capabilities to automate build, development, administration, and other recurring and repetitive tasks. Extend the power of the MKS Toolkit products by integrating the custom solutions of your enterprise to Windows.
How Toolkit for Professional Developers can help
Software Developers
- Migrate your custom or favorite UNIX and Linux commands and utilities to Windows.
- Port existing UNIX scripts.
- Integrate and automate a cross-platform build environment.
- Easily package and deploy applications.
- Perform automated testing.
- Decrease time to market.
- Evolve legacy applications with native Windows development.
Deploy Your Custom Commands and Utilities
MKS Toolkit for Professional Developers allows you to extend the power of the MKS Product family by giving you the tools to migrate your custom UNIX commands and utilities to the Windows platform. The MKS Toolkit product family also makes it easy for you to deploy those utilities throughout your organisation. All MKS Toolkit products include the MKS NuTCRACKER Workstation which will enable your ported utilities to function in the Windows enviornment. In addition you could equip your end user desktops with MKS Toolkit for Power Users. This runtime offering contains all the components necessary to bring the power of UNIX to your Windows environment.
" We believe [Toolkit] gives us options and benefits not possible through any other solution including: a time-to-market advantage; long-term savings due to reduced maintenance across platforms; the ability to utilise Windows features and integrate our products with other Windows applications; and the ability to take advantage of performance features in workstations based on the Intel Architecture."
Walden Rhines, CEO, Mentor Graphics
MKS Toolkit for Professional Developers Features
- Over 1500 UNIX APIs.
- Process management: fork(), exec(), signals.
- POSIX, DCE, and Solaris threads.
- File system handling: mount(), umount(), symlink().
- IPC and Networking: sockets (including UNIX-domain sockets), shared memory, message queues, semaphores, and FIFOs.
- Over 300 UNIX and Windows command-line utilities (full POSIX.2 specification).
- MKS Korn shell (ksh) and MKS C shell (csh) command environments.
- UNIX to Win32 file and user security mapping.
- UNIX to Win32 file path and file system mapping, including devices such as /dev/null and /dev/lp.
- Curses and terminal handling.
- Remote utilities (rsh, rexec, rcp, rlogin) for accessing other UNIX and Windows machines.
- A complete build environment including ar, cc, cxx, ld, make, gmake, tcl, and flex/bison.
- A Deployment Wizard, a simple, graphical tool for preparing applications for distribution.
- The MKS Toolkit Cross-Platform Developer's Guide.
- NuTCRACKER Workstation.
Next Steps...
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Product Datasheet for Toolkit for
Professional Developers (PDF)
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